Tyranids invade the AQ.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-09-26 12:03am

Should this thread be changed to "defining the Tyranids' power" since no one has posted on behalf of the AQ yet?

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2002-09-27 10:13pm

We've all seen redshirts fight... I think the only argument you'll get on this thread is on how long it takes the tyranids to chew up the alpha quadrant.

My experience has been that two things are a Tyranid's biggest enemies: artillery and rapid-fire long range weapons. The Feddies (and their opponents) seem to have neither. The Klingons, with their love of hand-to-hand weapons, will die the fastest. The Borg are not an alpha quadrant power, but given their lack of KE shielding they too will fall to the Swarm. It also means those pestilential shapechanging founders will be wiped out as well: I doubt they can imitate Tyranid pheremones and they sure can't pretend to be part of the hive mind.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-09-28 04:40pm

Interestingly enough, you can't use a dark eldar mimic engine to pretend to be a 'nid ship. (or a necron one) so the founders have no chance of sucess.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-09-28 10:02pm

Typhonis 1 wrote:One ;last thing Tyranids have been around since 1987 in W40k how long has Starcraft been around?

Tyranids and 'Stealers first appeared in Rogue Trader. The game 40k was born out of. They weren't rlated back then though.

They weren't the defined force they became eventually though, It was largely Advanced Space Crusade that set them up to invade the product line.

(off topic incidental, I walk past GW head office on the way to work.. 20 foot wide Imperium eagle on the front...)

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2002-09-29 06:18am

Vendetta wrote: (off topic incidental, I walk past GW head office on the way to work.. 20 foot wide Imperium eagle on the front...)

Do they still have the space marine statue?

Joe Richter · Post by **Joe Richter** » 2002-09-29 11:45am

I think we have that statue in the Nottingham city branch at the mo.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2002-09-30 12:05am

More impressive than the statue or the logo is the Chaos-customised 40k scaled Imperator titan I saw at Games Day one year that was supposed to be possessed by Khorne himself. That sucker had to be 6 feet tall, and beautifully detailed.